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Now on with the story!

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha, cries in background

Warning: Some Kagome Bashing and a little different from our society… and OOC for Kaeda. And some lime.

Cast:

Kagome

InuYasha

Sango

Miroku

Sesshomaru

Rin

Lady Misa

Tristan

Kaeda

Sau

(That's still just the beginning…)

Chapter 1- 17 years later… March 12, 3015-

"The most wonderful fairytale is life itself."

Hans Christian Anderson

Sunlight came shining through the large window to illuminate the humongous room, as the Demon slave pulled the drapes back. The demon looked out of the window across the lawn to the village, and beyond that the Wild Demon woods, and out even further the fields of iris' and other unique flowers. While he looked out the window, he seemed to become in a trance and forgot the purpose of why he was here in this bedroom, but the sound of sleepy moaning in the four-poster bed, brought him back to the present.

The demon slave, Sau turned quickly to watch in amusement as a small lump moved restlessly in the queen-sized bed. He snorted when the lump settled down again and a snore came to his ears.

Why did he have to wake up Kagome, why didn't her mother and his mistress get her a set of Demon slaves- she would have to have at least three in a few months time- then he could have peace and finish his chores. But the Lady Misa had told him to do this and so he must or be punished severely.

With a resigned sigh Sau walked over to Lady Kagome and pulled her covers back. She thrashed around a bit while Sau stood back a ways, ready to dodge oncoming projectile objects thrown from the thrashing imp. This lasted for about five minutes and at the end of her episode he had his arms crossed over his chest in an elder like stance. He could tell she was awake, yet she didn't move at all.

He sighed again, this was her little game. She would be awake yet would not move, making Sau have to reach down and tickle her into submission. Then when she was awake fully she would make him sit down and eat her breakfast with her. If any of the other women in the village knew how she acted she would be the laughing stock and would be thrown into the woods. Hell, even if her mother knew, it could be disastrous. She didn't act like any other woman he knew in this day and age. She actually had a spark of innocence and love in her soul.

He growled in warning at Kagome and heard a small giggle come from her form. A small smile graced his lips for a moment and then it was gone. Only Kagome could bring out a smile in a demon. In fact most people believed she would talk to the demons just to get them to smile and laugh.

"Lady Kagome… you must get up now." Sau growled in his rough voice. "Today you have lessons with Priestess Kaeda, in about 2 hours. And you still need to practice your welcome-to-womanhood ball dance before the day is done. I would hurry, miss."

A look of triumph came to his face as Kagome squealed and shot out of bed, rushing behind her parchment screen. He could hear her frantically getting dressed behind it and sighed yet again. She had forgotten (again) that no demon could leave a room without the permission of the mistress and if no mistress was around then at least a woman.

How the hell would she learn enough of the rules and etiquette of a Lady of her stature when she could barely remember the simplest of rules? She was hopeless! And she was turning 21- the age of womanhood- in just a couple months. She needed to know these things!

Sau waited over by the door leading to the hallway, while listening to Kagome's unlady like curses and harsh cry's.

'She'll never learn…' Sau thought while shaking his head. But at least she was kind and treated the demons well.

In what seemed like hours, but was really minutes, Kagome was ready and out from behind the separator. Sau found himself gawking at the beauty in front of him and then blushed as if he wasn't 40 years her senior. She had that way with demons, though she didn't seem to know it.

When she went to the marketplace she could stop a demon in his tracks, making him forget his place and purpose for being there. When she stopped and talked to demons as if they were not slaves but normal people, the demons would think they were lords. She was pure hearted and kind and she didn't even know it.

Kagome today had decided to wear a light green picnic dress. It had fluffed sleeves and went to the floor as was to be expected of the ladies of court. You could also tell that Kagome had a corset on, because she was gulping in small breaths as she walked. But that didn't stop her from smiling at Sau. As she came over to him she began to grin and Sau couldn't help it and showed the small amount of emotion he ever did to Kagome, he patted her head.

"You know little one… some day yer going to make a nice lady of that there court. Yer mother will be proud."

Kagome giggled in her naïve sort of way and curtsied in front of him.

"Why thank you kind, sir!" She said in her husky cheerful voice. "Someday I'll make it so you can have your on land Sau! And you could be Lord!"

Sau gently led her out of the room and down the grand staircase. "I shall look forward to that day, lassie." He then bowed to her as all slaves must to a woman. And Kagome saw the cue of what she should do.

"Oh! You may leave now, Sau. I am done with your assistance." Kagome spoke with a fake queen accent and nod. Sau himself shook his head in disbelief.

'You'd think she was still five years old.' But he was to far away from her to comment on her mockery. Shit, he had to finish his chores!

Break

"Mama! I'm leaving to Priestess Kaeda's shrine. I'll be home later." Kagome told her mother, Lady Misa.

Her mother sat at the long, elegant dinner table with her Master demon behind her. Kagome had never understood how Tristan could act so in love with her mother when he could be killed in an instant for that alone. Kagome knew he had sired her yet, she could not act like he was her father.

She had learned that the hard way.

Flash back

A six-year-old Kagome and Tristan had been walking in the marketplace and Kagome had decided to run off and play with some little girls she knew from preschool. Tristan had sat down to watch over her, trying hard not to listen to the comments being sent his way.

Well, Kagome had come up to him with a little flower she had picked and being herself had to scream at the top of her lungs:

"Daddy! Look what I got!"

She could remember clearly how he had beaten her when they got back home and he had spoken clearly to her.

"You must never call me that! I am your mothers Master demon and not your father! Do you hear me, Miss. Kagome? Never call me that or we may all be killed!"

Kagome had run away crying and yelled over her shoulder: "I hate you! You aren't my father! There is no such thing! You're a monster!"

End of flashback

She had never been with him alone again and had never spoken to him like a human being again.

A quick bite of toast and a hug and kiss from her mother and Kagome was out of the house, running to the gates surrounding her mother's lands.

Demon's around her stopped working in the field to yell a hello to her and she took her time to stop and greet them back, even once stopping to talk to Hojo. Soon she was alone again and walking along the trail right next to the Wild Demon's wood.

The sun was out, the meadows full bloom. It was spring! It was almost time for the mating festival! Kagome groaned in misery, her mother and master demon always got lovey-dovey around that time and then her mother would go into the woods to catch demons.

This was the only time to do it since demons hid all through the rest of the year. Why now? Well, demons had to mate at least once a year and spring seemed to make them become horny and come out of hiding to follow women that caught their fancy. And Kagome's mother had to catch them to become the slaves.

'Why my family?' Kagome thought in disappointment. She hated hurting demons. Kagome huffed while kicking a rock in the path.

"Why am I so different? Every other girl that's my age has her three demon slaves she needs. But I can't seem to do it. My mom gets plenty of demon's every year but they look so confused that I just can't take any of them. If only I didn't care what they thought, like the other girls. But my conscience…'

Kagome stopped to look up at the humongous building her feet had taken her to while her mind had wandered to her problems.

The building belonged to Priestess Kaeda and was the only Shrine for miles around. Kaeda had taught all the girls in the village the etiquette and laws of Triqan. And though Kagome should be done with the lessons she had flunked the laws of Triqan and so she had to come today to have a long, boring lecture to at the very most pass into womanhood. With a quick intake of breath for courage, Kagome stepped through the gate and into the shrine.

Break

Amber colored eyes followed the girl as she walked into the shrine. White hair flipped around his face in the wind as two dog ears twitched on the top of his head.

He couldn't understand why this spring he had been pulled to the woman village, Vidalce. He had always been stronger than the urge to mate and could stay away from the village's surrounding the forest. But just now his nose had twitched with the scent of vanilla and rosewood and he had followed it. He couldn't remember how he had gotten this close to the woman village; all he could remember was the young woman he had followed.

He shifted uncomfortably as he felt his cock swell with need. He walked painfully further back in the woods. He couldn't afford getting caught by Demon Slavers; he had lived away from the women all his 25 years of life and would continue that way.

Women were the meanest creatures on this planet. They didn't have souls to help UN slave demons, none of them. A growl lifted his lips, showing deadly fangs.

He knew he should leave yet here he stood watching the shrine where the woman had entered. His thick, hard cock twitched in impatience ness. Oh, Shit! He was in deep trouble now!

Break

"… And so our First Mother placed the curse upon them-" Kaeda droned on in her mono tone. Kagome kept coming in and out of her daydreams to listen to bits and pieces of what Priestess Kaeda was saying for the last 30 minutes. She had been telling the myth of our beginning.

"I didn't come her to a myth! I've heard that one plenty from my mother! I came here to learn some laws!"

"I beg yer pardon, Lady Kagome?" Priestess Kaeda spoke softly. Kagome froze in her doodling and blinked up at the frowning priestess.

"What?" Kagome asked with a tremor in her voice. 'Please tell me I didn't think out loud…'

"What ye just said Lady Kagome. About you not having enough time for my myths!" And with that said she brought her hand down on the table sat under.

'Oh crap…'

Sweat formed on Kagome's palms and she began to shake. Kaeda could be so scary when she wanted to be. She looked like a buccaneer with her eye patch and long gray hair put in a tight bun that made her one eye stretch to look Chinese.

Fear shook Kagome as she looked up at the evil creature.

"Well, it's just that I don't really want to hear the myth. I've heard it all my life from my mother." Kagome could see Kaeda's eye beginning to narrow. "But, I would enjoy hearing the laws, they could help me so much Priestess."

Kaeda had a look of concentration on her face and then she turned. She had made her decision.

"So, ye want to learn the laws, do ye? Ye want to learn so that ye can be a woman, eh? Well fine then! Here are the rules of our world." Kaeda brought a blackboard around to the front of the room.

A spark of relief went into Kagome and she brought out a rush of air form her lungs.

'That was close…'

Kaeda swung around whipping out her ruler stick like a samurai would a sword. "Lady Kagome, what are the 6 main rules of Triqan?"

Kagome blanched, 'Didn't I just tell her I was here to learn them?' Kaeda must have seen her reaction since she launched the stick against Kagome's hand.

"OWWW! What did you do that for?" Kagome asked sharply holding her hand against her chest.

"I know what you're thinking, girl. I want to know what laws you already know. Do ye understand, twit?"

Tears filled Kagome's eyes at the way Kaeda was treating her. She had always thought the priestess had liked her. But of course that couldn't be, what had she been hoping for? The only people who liked her were Lady Sango and her mother.

"Yes, Kaeda… ummm… There is one that states that a lady of any rank must have at least three demon slaves by her 21st birthday."

Kaeda nodded, "And the consequence if ye do not heed the law?"

Kagome wracked her brain. 'What was it? Oh yes…'

"You could be striped of your rank and belongings and be sent to the servant quarters of the queen's castle." She grinned in triumph. Oh, she was good.

"Well done Lady Kagome. But do you know the most important rule?"

"I believe so Priestess…" She stopped with a moment of hesitation. "Is… is it that… you may not… love a demon? And if you do, you receive the worst punishment. You are taken to the queen, humiliated in front of everyone and then after all that you, your demon, and all your children (whether it be demon or girl) are killed.

"For the queen believes that if you are that way then your children will follow in your footsteps."

"Very good Kagome." Kaeda smiled warmly at Kagome and Kagome squirmed on her wooden chair. "And do you know any other of the four remaining?"

Quickly Kagome shook her head, and watched as Kaeda sighed.

"Well… ye had better learn these, young lady, I don't want to see you here again for lessons. Now, the next most important law is that if a woman has 2 demon (they were called in the old world boys) children, the woman is killed off and the master demon is hung. The demon boys usually disappear and we believe that they run into the forest areas. But if the woman had a girl child the child is given to a willing family who will raise her and hope for the better.

"The next rule is that any demon boy born is handed to the Demon who sired it and you are never to see it again, and if you do see it then you must pretend indifferent. For they have no feelings, they cannot love…"

Kagome's hand rose and she cleared her throat. She didn't understand why but she had to say something. She had to protect the demons, since she knew young ones who smiled with happiness and cried in loneliness.

"Priestess, I believe you are wrong on that account! For I have seen many demon slaves in this village alone who watch ladies with envious eyes. I hear their voices and how they love this girl or the next. If the myth is true, then they are just like us… they love, hate, die, live…"

"SLAP!"

The hand hit Kagome Square in the face making her fall back out of the chair she sat upon. Kagome looked up as the tears of pain came to her eyes, and she looked through hazy eyes up at the furious Kaeda and watched as Kaeda brought her fisted arm in front of her and unfurled her fingers to point to the front door.

"Out! Now! You are a disgrace to the women in this town and you will never be accepted by any of us! You will have your Sango friend and demons to keep you company. And hopefully they can save you from the humiliation you will have, Demon LOVER! Now out of my temple, I don't want you anywhere near here!"

Keeping the tears from rolling down her face, Kagome nodded. And with her last bit of pride she stood up walked stiffly to the door. She wouldn't let them see her cry. When she came to the gates of the temple and they shut behind her with a bang she felt the tears fall more and more. Soon she was sobbing uncontrollably and she ran.

Her mind so preoccupied, she didn't hear the running footsteps behind her.

Break

Someone had made her cry, the amber-eyed demon felt a hard tightening in his chest and a possessive growl came out of his mouth. His eyes widened in surprise as the meaning of the growl registered in his brain. 'What am I thinking? Women are evil and I just need to take a dip in a cold stream to get this one out of my mind! I have to get out of here! I'll leave and see what the pack thinks, maybe I can kill her.' He laughed a little as he backed from the woman that was now running home.

Her backside rocked back and forth making his already hard cock even harder. He could tell that he would never get rid of this hard-on as long as he didn't get her. What would he do?

The girl slipped as he watched in a small amount of water collected at the side of the lane and she fell in it making a small cry as she went. He felt himself go forward to help her and when he got close enough to hear her sobs and smell her scent he began to back away. What am I doing? I just have to get out of here! She could be a Demon Slaver! But he was to late, the girl had felt his presence and she swiftly turned around to face him.

He got ready for her scream and all the other villagers coming out with pitchforks and such. But she just continued looking at him and when he got the courage to quickly back away from her she offered a tiny smile and then ran away again. Looking back once over her shoulder.

A small look of surprise came over him at what she had done. She wasn't going to scream? Or take him away? She wasn't even watching him warily! This was confusing… He really needed help.

And so, with a last whiff of her scent he was off into the woods, to find his pack mates and camp.

Break

Tristan dragged his fangs down her throat as Misa wriggled under him and moaned. They were in her room with the door securely locked and he was now beginning to start his mating ritual that they always had this early in the spring.

"Tristan! Hurry! I think someone is coming up the stairs… We have to hurry!" Misa whispered in broken sentences and then moaned in agony when he came back up to give her a smoldering kiss on the lips. "Dear goddess! How I love you!"

His growl echoed around them and he answered in a rough voice, "And I you, my fiery one." He was about to enter her when a knock banged on the door and his eyes bulged in anger. Misa shrieked and pushed him off the bed and he fell to the floor with a muffled curse.

She giggled slightly while looking down at him, "Sorry darling…" She was about to say something else when a sob came from behind the door.

"Mama! Please hurry and get dressed… I need… yo-o-u n-n-o-o-w." Kagome's voice whimpered and broke with sobs.

Misa gasped and was out of the bed in seconds, Tristan himself already dressed and helping her slip on her day dress. He quietly stood in a far corner as Misa opened the door. What lay beyond it was what shocked her into almost fainting.

Kagome stood with her once clean green dress was splattered with mud and stains of tears were on her cheeks. Kagome now was hiccupping as she usually did after a good cry.

"I'm sorry mama… I didn't finish the lessons for womanhood and, I fell in the mud and ruined the dress that you made for me… and I'm sorry that I talked to a demon that was from the woods." With this Kagome's eyes became cloudy and faraway.

"Well, actually we didn't talk but I let him go and I know you told me never to do that but I had fallen in the mud and he was just trying to help me up and then he left, but why I fell in the mud was because I was so STUPID! I'M SUCH AN IDIOT! What's wrong with me! Why can't I be like other people! Why can't I just go and hate demons like everyone else, or just ignore them but I can't and my stupid mouth is so… I… hate… myself."

And then Kagome did something that neither Tristan nor Misa thought she would do again. She ran pass Misa and fell into Tristan's arms and curled her arms around his neck. "I'm sorry daddy!" She cried. And Misa looked up to Tristan and he had a look in his eyes like his world had been completed, he slowly curled his arms around his daughter and held her close.

"Don't worry, you don't have to know all of the laws to pass into womanhood, all you have to do is follow what your mother says." Tristan murmured trying to make his rough voice softer. And Misa found herself crying. This is how the world should work.

But soon Tristan pushed Kagome out of his hold and shushed her. Minutes later one of Misa's demon slaves came into the room.

"M'lady, a great woman is here who wants you to go hunting tonight for some demons. She will pay much for you to do this. Will you?" Nit asked her with his usual gentleness. Misa thought a moment and then nodded to him.

"Yes, get all our horses ready and grab Lady Sango from her room. We ride in five minutes."

She turned to Kagome and slowly sighed. "My dear you must come with me tonight, you must find your three demon slaves. I do not want you taken from me at your 21st birthday. Do you understand?"

Kagome made to answer no but then saw her mother's hard face and nodded sullenly. "Yes mama."

"Good, Tristan, go help Nit, Sau, and Svac. Me and my daughter will get ready." Tristan nodded and soon the room was quiet as both mother and daughter began to search for their clothes for hunting, neither of them knew the horror that awaited them in the woods tonight. There would be no sheltering arms in the trees.

Only graves.

Authors Corner: (I know, kinda dark story but it really will get a bit lighter as it gets on, just most of my stories either start really happy and then end dark or they start dark and end happy.) Enjoy